Posts Tagged ‘career services’
Continuous learning is crucial to staying competitive in the job market
Career path steps are getting shorter, and employees should take care to look after their market value through life-wide learning, advises Jouko Pitkänen at Aalto University Executive Education. In addition to his position as a Senior Partner at JFP Executive Search, Pitkänen is a Visiting Lecturer at Aalto EE. He offers the following tips to…
Read MoreEleven Viennese Vignettes: Illuminations from the 2022 EFMD Career Services Conference
Careers Consultant Dominic Prosser of Henley Business School provides reflections on the 2022 EFMD Career Services Conference that took place in November at WU in Vienna. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus died in Vienna in 180 C.E.. The last of the so-called Five Good Roman Emperors his principal legacy is as a Stoic Philosopher, bequeathing us such…
Read MoreThe October EFMD Global Fairs by Highered went hybrid
The October edition of the EFMD Global Fairs by Highered has come to a successful close. The event, which was created initially in the virtual space, went hybrid and was hosted by EAE Business School Barcelona (Spain) from October 18-20. In the words of EFMD Global’s Manager of the Virtual Career Fair Series, Jean-Alexis Spitz,…
Read MoreChallenging the value proposition: do career services prepare students for today’s working models?
Amber Wigmore Alvarez, PhD, Chief Talent Officer, Highered EFMD Upon successful conclusion of the 2022 EFMD Annual Conference, I reflect upon an invigorating experience moderating the breakout session entitled “Challenging the value proposition: Do career services prepare students for today’s working models?”. Panellists Dasha Karzunina, Skills Transformation Consultant, EMEA (Coursera, UK) and Jaromír Staroba, Prague…
Read MoreConnecting with careers at the 2022 CPDI
By Maria Moragianis, Head of Career Development & Community Engagement, Highered. This year’s CPDI (Career Professionals Development Institute), graciously hosted by EADA Business School in Barcelona was the first in-person EFMD careers event since the Covid-19 outbreak and the energy was high among the 20 careers professionals participating. After two years of online connecting, it…
Read MoreEFMD 4 Ukraine, a platform to connect Ukrainian talent and companies
The rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine is heavily impacting the Ukrainian population that has to defend its way of life and sovereignty and fight for survival. Some are on the forefront, some are displaced within the country, others had to flee abroad and seek refuge in neighbouring central and…
Read MoreCheck out who’s coming to the 2022 EFMD Global Fairs Powered by Highered
We have an all-star line-up of speakers prepared to take centre stage at the April edition of the EFMD Global Fairs Powered by Highered. The following speakers are ready to engage with the thousands of students and graduates already registered from more than 100+ EFMD schools around the world: The Digital Conference on Day 1,…
Read MoreRethinking faculty models for impactful schools and resilient careers
Wilfred Mijnhardt is the Policy Director for Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Chair of the new EFMD Faculty Management Programme. Follow him on Twitter. Impact has landed in the missions and strategies of business schools and in the standards of accreditation agencies. Impact is core business, together with the creation of new…
Read MoreHiring Trends for Business School Graduates: 2021 Corporate Recruiters Survey
Nine in ten corporate recruiters expect the demand for business school graduates to increase or remain stable in the next five years, according to the 2021 Corporate Recruiters Survey. This annual GMAC survey provides vital data for employers and business schools in understanding trends and insights about hiring, salaries, and skills for MBA and business…
Read MoreReflections on the state of the career services industry in a post-COVID marketplace
The Career Professionals Development Institute (CPDI) was inaugurated in November 2019, following years of feedback from Career Services professionals from the EFMD Global network, as to the need to go deeper into the challenges of the industry. Since then, this program, which is jointly organised by Highered and EFMD, has endeavoured to equip talent professionals…
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